[AstroBogan (Jacob)]

Originally Posted by xelasnave

Good point re framing as it seemed to me that the dragons could be included just a little more.

What I like to do is select a short exposure time say 1500 mil.ses and turn gain up to max to check framing and focus even... and that usually shows nebulosity that you may wish to include but just remember to change back to appropriate imaging settings as there have been times where I forgot started my session and come back to find I have wasted half an hour or more with test subs, and on that point it is worthwhile looking at the first couple of images I often stack the first six ( 30 sec subs here) in Deep Sky Stacker and brighten and darken the final image to see how things are going...

Edit addition.

Thanks for your kind words Jacob.
Alex

Thanks for the tips Alex, will definitely take them into account for the next session

Originally Posted by Dave882

Great to see you’ve got the rig up and running again after so much time and look forward to more to come!! Well done

Thanks Dave, much appreciated!

Side note - I am also located in Padstow what a small world!